Presh Talwalkar has an elegant explanation on why competing entities in an environment where demand is linearly distributed (like two burger stands on a beach) tend to cluster in the center of demand. The intuitive explanation is this: Imagine two burger stands on a straight beach a mile long with the beach crowd evenly distributed along its […]
Keith Hennessey does a spectacular job of explaining the complicated process of arriving at the federal budget and where it is currently stuck in this week’s Econtalk. He also breaks down who has the power to move things forward right now. It’s so good I was tempted to transcribe selected bits here, but I just […]
July 27, 2011 | Economics | No comments
Got another call from the Obama campaign today who I spent a lot of time and energy supporting last election. I don’t support either party currently because I’ve evolved into an economic conservative but still socially liberal which leaves me stuck with no party to support. So just for the hell of it I tried […]
According to Pando Networks, Seattle has the fastest average Internet speed in the country with an average speed of 1,017KBps. Compared to San Francisco and Austin who have 912KBps and 911KBps respectively
July 27, 2011 | Startups | 1 comment
Someone just arrived at my blog by Googling: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THESE PEOPLE IN THE US WITH THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS A reminder of the hard problems Google’s engineers are working on.
Yesterday FT.com’s Alphaville posted a graph showing that the US treasuries CDS graph had inverted for the first time ever. What that means is that the cost to insure against default on 1 year US Treasury Notes costs more than it does to insure a 5 year note. This goes contrary to economic liquidity […]
July 27, 2011 | Economics | No comments
Every primary and high school curriculum should include a mandator web programming course the same way it includes math and a first language. When’s the last time you used pythagoras? How about Euclids proof of the infinitude of primes? Both of these are popular in high school math curriculums. My sister one of the best chef’s […]
July 27, 2011 | Code | No comments
There has been plenty of speculation during the last 2 years that we’re in a tech investment bubble. It seems every blogger is trying to “call it”. It hasn’t burst yet and if AirBnB’s $112 million round of funding announced today is anything to go by, it ain’t going to burst any time soon. Lets […]
July 25, 2011 | Startups | No comments
I get wierded out when an opinion piece I posted about the impending debt default is on the home page of Hacker News for 20 minutes and climbing – and then gets disappeared. The article is still posted on HN, no message that it’s flagged as spam, no email. Just a little tweak that disappears me from everything […]
July 24, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
With Greece defaulting – not a “technical default” or “restructuring” as it’s being branded but a real live default – the stage has been well set for August Second if the USA does in fact default on it’s own debt. I tend to percieve the sky as falling earlier than most because I grew up […]